Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 6: Tawi Andolan expressed concern over the slackness of the Government in dealing with land encroachment by the unscrupulous persons within and around Tawi river basin, banks, water bodies and forests.
Addressing a press conference, Advocate Chander Mohan Sharma, Convener, Tawi Andolan and Namami Gange Project, said that whenever any serious attempt is made to retrieve such grabbed land, the land mafia attacks the staff and even the police parties accompanying them.
Terming the brutal attack on the staff and police party by the miscreants as an act of highhandedness and violence, he said such acts are condemnable.
He stated that removal of the illegal encroachments from the State land near banks and basin of River Tawi is necessary, so that it can be used for construction of big projects like IIT and IIM, as the land is nearer to Jammu City, National Highway, Airport and Railways and is suitable for housing big projects.
“Tawi is lifeline of people of Jammu region and is regarded as Surajputri (Goddess). Beside this, the river has got tremendous potential of attracting tourists and pilgrims”, Sharma maintained.
He said that Tawi Andolan does not object of providing accommodation to the genuine homeless people at some proper place and under some proper planning, adding that Tawi Andolan demands police action against all illegal occupants of the State land who have come from Bangladesh, Myanmar and other parts to our State unreasonably.
Among others present were Subash Gupta, Co-Convenor, Shush Pal Singh, Girish Sharma, Surinder Sharma, Prof Rajinder Mishra, Dr Prem Sharma, JK Chopra, Ravi Sharma and Raj Kumar.
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